vmware

Overview

The vmware driver supports virtualization across all VMware based hypervisors.

Requirements

  • VMware Fusion

Driver Installation

If the Brew Package Manager is installed, run:

brew install docker-machine-driver-vmware

Otherwise:

r=https://api.github.com/repos/machine-drivers/docker-machine-driver-vmware
d=docker-machine-driver-vmware_darwin_amd64
u=$(curl -s $r/releases/latest | grep -o 'http.*Darwin_amd64.tar.gz' | head -n1)
mkdir $d \
 && (cd $d && curl -L $u > $d.tar.gz && tar -xf $d.tar.gz) \
 && install $d/docker-machine-driver-vmware /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-vmware \
 && rm -rf $d

Usage

Start a cluster using the vmware driver:

minikube start --driver=vmware

To make vmware the default driver:

minikube config set driver vmware

No documentation is available yet.

Requirements

  • VMware Workstation

Driver Installation

First install the VMware Workstation

After installation, start a cluster using the vmware driver:

minikube start --driver vmware

Issues

Troubleshooting

  • Run minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7 to debug crashes